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Topic Lesson 2: //**Blasting Off to Space Academy**//

Common Core Standards RI5.7 Draw on information from multiple print or digital sources, demonstrating the ability to locate an answer to a question quickly or solve a problem efficiently. W5.2b Develop the topic with facts, definitions, concrete details, quotations, or other information and examples related to the topic. W5.5 With guidance and support from peers and adults, develop and strengthen writing as needed by planning, revising, editing, and rewriting.

Suggested Student Objectives 1. Students will use text and graphic features to answer questions. 2. Students will interpret information from text and graphic features. 3. Students will use text and graphic features to gain information. 4. Students will write a descriptive composition.

Suggested Additional Readings

Literary Texts
 * Eye Wonder: Space (Eye Wonder) by Carole Stott
 * __The Magic School Bus Lost in Space__

Poems
 * "What Birds Plunge Through Is Not The Intimate Space" by Rainer Maria Rilke
 * "There is a Solitude of Space" by Emily Dickinson

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 * Visit the Hayden Planetarium and take a virtual trip to the moon.
 * Students may visit this fun and interactive site to learn more about space:

Assessments 1. Practice Book, pages 13-14 2. Writing Rubric 1-4, see TE 127 and R18 3. Weekly Test 2.4-2.5

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